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Homophobia

Causes

Primary

Repressed feelings of same-sex attraction

Human sexuality is not binary. It is a fluid continuum all the way from completely-homosexual to completely-heterosexual.

Many individuals in the middle of the spectrum experience some degree of same-sex longing and attraction, but the majority are constrained from acting on these feelings due to the social consequences they believe would accompany a perception that they are anything other than completely-straight. 

This ongoing conflict makes these individuals highly prone to suffer from homophobia and to engage in homophobic compensating behaviors in order to mask their true feelings.

Sigmund Freud called these compensating behaviors "reaction formation" and recent studies have confirmed his long-standing theory.

People tend to dislike that which they secretly want, but feel that they shouldn’t have.